A plaque at the Jewish centre will carry the names of the victims of the attack

It’s been a decade since the 26/11 attacks rocked Mumbai, and while the memories of the tragedy live on, parts of the city are moving on. In that spirit, Nariman House, one of the several sites under attack, is being turned into a memorial. The building has been renamed as Nariman Light House, signifying a new chapter and a new beacon of light.

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An outreach centre of the Jewish Chabad movement, the Nariman House (also known as Chabad House) was one of the major targets of the attacks. The building was taken hostage by two terrorists, who killed nine people.

The Nariman Light House memorial will take shape in two phases. The first phase involves a plaque inscribed with the names of those who died in the 26/11 attacks, Rabi Israel Kozlovsky told PTI. Water will stream through the plaque from a fountain, signifying the “flow of life”. Paintings of the six sites under attack—The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, The Oberoi, Leopold Café, Cama Hospital, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Nariman House—will also find a place on the plaque.

The second memorial, themed “from darkness to light” and expected to be completed in a year, will be located on the fourth and fifth floors of the building.

The room of the two-year-old survivor Moshe Holtzberg is in the same state as it was following the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks. Photo: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

Ten years ago, 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists carried out coordinated attacks for nearly 60 hours across six places in the city. The terrorists, who sailed into Mumbai from Karachi, carried out bomb explosions and held scores of innocent people hostage.

On the evening of November 26, 2008, Babbar Imran and Nasir attacked Nariman House, taking several hostages. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his pregnant wife, Rivka, were among those killed. Their two-year-old son, Moshe, was rescued by his nanny, Sandra Samuel, and survived the attack. The siege ended with two commandos from the National Security Guard gunning down the terrorists.